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Posted by John McGaw on May 18, 2008, 9:43 pm
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Stan Hilliard wrote:
> For the past few weeks I have been getting a lot of bounced emails
> that I did not send. They come to both my address and my wife's. They
> come in spurts. Today I received about 70 in one hour. Then it
> stopped. It will probably happen again tomorrow.
>
> What is happening. Is there a page where this problem is described?
>
> Stan Hilliard
Typically what happens is that someone somewhere has your email address on
their system. Then this someone gets careless and allows their system to
become infected with malware which then appropriates your email address to
use as a false return address for sending their spam or malware messages to
a list of recipients. Their list is seldom accurate and a percentage of the
messages get bounced back. But guess what -- when they bounce they go to
the falsified return address. _Your_ return address. This explains why the
bounced messages come in spurts -- the malware sends a thousand messages
and the bad addresses are detected in pretty short order at the receiving
end and _you_ receive a slug of messages.
John McGaw
http://johnmcgaw.com
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